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Vasectomy provider decision-making balancing autonomy and non-maleficence: qualitative interviews with providers [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] [PDF]
Background Male sterilization, or vasectomy, is 99.9% effective at preventing pregnancy with less than a 2% risk of complications. Despite the high efficacy, low risk, low cost, and gender equity benefits of vasectomy, just 2% of women reported that they
Alison T. Hoover +2 more
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The principles of law play a crucial role in shaping the legal system of a society and ensuring the rights and freedoms of its citizens. This article explores the importance of general principles of law in establishing the rule of law and guaranteeing ...
Parvina Fazail Ismayilova
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Non-maleficence and the ethics of consent to cancer screening. [PDF]
Cancer screening programmes cause harm to individuals via overdiagnosis and overtreatment, even where they confer population-level benefit. Screening thus appears to violate the principle of non-maleficence, since it entails medically unnecessary harm to
Elton L.
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Conforming to partnership values: a qualitative case study of public–private mix for TB control in Ghana [PDF]
Background: Public–private mix (PPM) can supplement public sector initiatives, including public health. As National Tuberculosis Control Programmes around the world embrace PPM, conforming to the four key principles of partnership values of beneficence ...
Joshua Amo-Adjei
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The importance of non-maleficence in clinical Praxis [PDF]
La praxis clínica podemos entenderla como el ejercicio de la medicina en el ámbito hospitalario, proponemos realizar una aproximación a un concepto, que desde que fue presentado los Principios de la ética biomédica por Beauchamp y Childress, se ...
Pachón Briceño, Luz Mery
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“First, do no harm”? Non-maleficence, population health and the ethics of risk
Screening for asymptomatic disease is a routine aspect of contemporary public health practice. However, it is also controversial, because it leads to overdiagnosis and overtreatment, with many arguing that programmes are “ineffective”, i.e.
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Exercise prescription and the doctor’s duty of non-maleficence [PDF]
An abundance of data unequivocally demonstrates that exercise can be an effective tool in the fight against obesity and its associated comorbidities.1 Indeed, physical activity can be more effective than widely used pharmaceutical interventions.
Christopher J. A. Pugh (11687816) +2 more
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Hysterectomy in the Mentally Disabled Female: An Ethical Dilemma
The establishment of menstrual hygiene, specifically among the mentally disabled females, is one of the most critical concerns posing challenges for the individual, family and caretaker.
Anna Rana
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Non-Maleficence, Social Benefit and the Vaccination of Children.
Public health policy often involves a trade-off between promoting population health and protecting the interests of identifiable individuals. This paper analyses this trade-off as it arises in the context of decisions about the vaccination of children ...
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Background: Doctors need good moral reasoning to solve moral issues that cause dilemmas in decision making. But researches on medical students suggest that there was no significant moral development in four-year length of studies and there was a moral ...
Veronica Nadya Puteri Nandifa +2 more
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